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Why were the ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?

Feline qualities were apparently next to godliness

Underfloor central heating from 2700 B.C. in Minoan Crete

Ancient technology

10 rock stars with impressive college degrees

If school isn't clicking, you can always drop out and try to make it as a rock star, of course

Oldest gynecological treatment on record performed in ancient Egypt 4.000 years ago

"Until now, there had been no evidence found to prove that such treatment was actually carried out”

The messy business of scrubbing 2,000 years of bird poop from an Egyptian temple

The crap covered up cartouches and constellations

Brazen Bull: Gruesome Ancient Greek Torture Device Turned Screams into “Music”

As its name suggests, the Brazen Bull was a bronze object in the shape of a bull

Is this tiny island really the lost home of the Aztecs?

Aztlán, the mythical homeland of the Aztec people, from where they departed before founding a second capital in a lake

How Poetry won Independence for Greece – WSJ

Two hundred years ago, the Greek revolution against Ottoman rule became a European cause thanks to the support of writers and artists

DNA Analysis sheds light on the mysterious origins of the Ancient Greeks

Scholars have long puzzled over the ancestry of the Minoans and Myceneans, two important Bronze Age cultures

Sir Paul McCartney looks back “like a fan” on first time he met John Lennon

McCartney recounted the day on 6 July, 1957, when he was introduced to Lennon, then aged 16, in Liverpool

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